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Despite the problems of surplus, the oil companies did well. Texaco's indicated fourth-quarter profits rose to $1.73 per share from $1.44, giving it a year-end profit record of $6.34 per share v. $5.85 a year earlier. Said Chairman Augustus C. Long: "New records were established in every phase of our operations." This year will be even better, he thinks, with U.S. demand improving 2% to 3% and overseas demand by 7%. Socony Mobil piled up indicated earnings of 96? per share v. 84? in the fourth quarter, for a year's total...
...Duck with Moxie. Jackie took pains to study and analyze each member of the Kennedy family. Once, in Palm Beach, she was 15 minutes late to lunch with her father-in-law. "That can be fatal with Joe when he's in one of his Emperor Augustus moods," says Investment Banker Charles Spalding, who was present. "So when she came in, he started to give her the needle, but she gave it right back. Old Joe has a lot of old-fashioned slang phrases, so Jackie told him: 'You ought to write a series of grandfather stories...
...language Translator Lenard uses is generally of Tiberian vintage, seldom earlier than Augustus, seldom later than Pliny, but the verse forms he employs are those of medieval doggerel, which he writes with distinction...
...figureheads. From Sculptor Randolph Rogers in 1871 came a statue of Lincoln. In 1887 Alexander Milne Calder, grandfather of the mobilist, did an equestrian bronze of Philadelphia's Civil War hero, General George Meade. Frederic Remington produced a Cowboy; Daniel C. French did an idealized female Justice; Augustus Saint-Gaudens carved a bust of President Garfield. There was a mounted George Washington said to be the largest bronze...
...vice-President responded by declaring at one point, "Massachusetts needs Leverett Saltonstall. I would change that to America needs Leverett Saltonstall." The Republicans displayed an interesting slate, including Secretary of State nominee Edward W. Brooke, the first Negro in the Commonwealth to run for state-wide office, and Augustus Means, the extremely young-looking Junior Chamber of Commercetype candidate for Lieutenant Governor. There was someone to please everybody, and it was a not unattractive lineup...